After making Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. look like a club fighter on May 6, Canelo Alvarez announced he would battle unified middleweight champion Gennady "GGG" Golovkin on Sept. 16. Sources have told Sporting News that Golden Boy Promotions has the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas reserved for that date.

However, it didn't appear boxing fans would want the long-awaited fight of Canelo vs. GGG.

Two years ago, all boxing fans could talk about was the fight between Floyd Mayweather vs. Manny Pacquiao — and how many of them felt cheated after that May 2015 evening in Las Vegas.

Six months later, when the stench wore off from Mayweather vs. Pacquiao, a new proposed super fight emerged: Canelo vs. GGG. Golovkin held the majority of the 160-pound titles, and Alvarez had just won the WBC middleweight title from Miguel Cotto.

Alvarez and his promoter, Oscar De La Hoya at the time, were reluctant to make the fight. The 26-year-old had only one fight at middleweight, and not even at the true weight limit of 160 pounds. The two wanted more time for Alvarez to grow into being a true 160-pound fighter.

Fans grew impatient; but all seemed right last May when Alvarez knocked out Amir Khan and called Golovkin into the ring. Alvarez said he was ready to fight. De La Hoya puffed out his chest and said he would talk with Golovkin's manager/advisor Tom Loeffler, famously telling him to have his phone ready, as he would be calling him to make the fight.

Boxing fans were overjoyed and relieved that the Canelo vs. GGG fight was in the works, but the fight De La Hoya had teased was still far away: He said a verbal agreement was in place for the fight to occur in September 2017. Fans doubted "The Golden Boy," not wanting to wait another 15 months for the fight between the two hardest punchers in the sport.

What if Canelo or Golovkin lost in that time frame? What if they suffered long-term injuries that would cause the fight to be pushed back?